function for all players in table, and other small questions

[kuwalda]

Hello.

I kinda bad with tables, so I don`t know how to correctly write them, but I hope you will understand my problem.

First of all I want to store all players, that have accepted their participation into race, into table:

  
raceName[playername] = unfinished or finishtime 
  

And after, when my timer ticks out, I want to call function on all of those players:

  
setTimer ( endRace, 10000, 1, raceMap ) 
  
function endRace(raceToEnd) 
    outputChatBox("Lets end this map:"..raceToEnd.."", root, 0, 255, 255) 
    --run loop for every player in table 
        --*arguments to end race* 
    --end loop 
end 
  

So what I am asking - how to make this loop? I know it`s something like for x,y in pairs(table) do ,but I don`t really understand how it works. I would be really greatful to anyone who could type this loop for me and explain it for me, so I know how to use it next time.

Also, I am having question - I have function

function raceConsider( ) 
    if getPlayerCount() >= 1 and raceActive["aktivs"] == false then 
        raceActive["aktivs"] = true 
        setTimer ( needRaceGUI, 5000, 1) 
        outputChatBox("DEBUG:[1]", root, 255, 255, 0) 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), raceConsider ) 
addCommandHandler("gorace", raceConsider) 
  

I can active it by joining the server, or typing command /gorace. How can I determinate what activated this function and if it was activated by command, I want to skip that IF statement check. Is it possible or I have to type another function?

[aintaro]

to loop through all the players is like this :

  
local players = getElementsByType ( "player" ) -- Get every player 
        for k, player in ipairs ( players ) do -- For every player do the following... 
            account = getPlayerAccount ( player ) -- Get every player's account 
                if ( not isGuestAccount ( account ) ) then -- For every player that's logged in.... 
                    outputChatBox("this is a message to all the players", player) 
                end 
        end 

[kuwalda]

function endRace(raceToEnd) 
    outputChatBox("We would end this race:"..raceToEnd..".", root, 0, 255, 255) --this shows, but nothing more 
    function findRaceWinner(blueBerryRallyP) 
        if blueBerryRallyP and type(blueBerryRallyP) == 'table' then 
            local time, winner = math.huge 
            for thePlayer, theTime in pairs(blueBerryRallyP) do 
                if theTime < time then 
                    winner, time = thePlayer, theTime 
                    outputChatBox("TEST: "..winner.."", root, 0, 255, 255) 
                    outputChatBox("TEST: "..time.."", root, 0, 255, 255) 
                    outputChatBox("TEST: "..tostring(winner).."", root, 0, 255, 255) 
                    outputChatBox("TEST: "..tostring(time).."", root, 0, 255, 255) 
                end 
            end 
            return winner, time 
        end 
        return false 
    end 
end 

why this is not working, when this is:

function sexyinfo(thePlayer, command) 
    outputChatBox(""..tostring(blueBerryRallyP[thePlayer]).."", thePlayer, 255, 255, 0) 
end 
addCommandHandler("fancy", sexyinfo) 

[Gtagasje]

  
function raceConsider(thePlayer, cmd) 
    if thePlayer and cmd and cmd == "gorace" then 
        -- It was activated by command 
    else 
        -- It was not activated by command 
        if getPlayerCount() >= 1 and raceActive["aktivs"] == false then 
            raceActive["aktivs"] = true 
            setTimer ( needRaceGUI, 5000, 1) 
            outputChatBox("DEBUG:[1]", root, 255, 255, 0) 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), raceConsider ) 
addCommandHandler("gorace", raceConsider)